• 词汇
• 课文
• 总结

词汇

• puma
• spot
  • v. pick out, see, recognise, catch sight of
    • A tall man is easy to spot in the crowd.
    • He has good eye for spotting mistakes
    • spot = see:
    • find:强调发现的结果
    • find out：查出事实真相
    • discover：做出重大发现
    • notice：注意到
    • obeserve：观察
    • watch：观察活动中的人或画面
  • n. 斑点
    • on the spot
      1. 立刻, 马上(at once, immediately)
         • Anyone breaking the rules will be asked to leave on the spot.
      2. 在现场(at the place of the action)
         • Wherever she is needed, she is quickly on the spot.
• evidence
  • 不可数名称
  • When the police arrived, he had alrady destroied the evidence.
  • evidence=proof
  • in evidence:显而易见的
    • He was in evidence at the party.
  • evident, evidently
• acumulate
  • 强调积累的过程
    • As the evidence accumulates, experts from the zoo felt obliged to investigate.
  • gather 聚集, vt.把某人召集在某处
    • We gathered on the town hall clock.
    • The teacher gathered his students in the class.
  • collect vt.收集, 采集
    • collect stamps
  • assemble 集合, 集会; vt. 装配
    • A large maount of people assemble on the square.
  • hoard vt.大量地贮存
    • The squirrel hoards up nuts for the cold winter.
    • hoard up = store up.
  • amass 积聚(主要用于诗歌和文学作品) come together
    • The clouds amassed above the hills
• oblige
  • make sb feel it is necessary to do sth
  • feel obliged to do sth 感觉有必要做某事
    • I feel obliged to say no to his demand.
  • be obliged to do sth 被迫做某事
    • They are obliged to sell their car to pay their debt off.
• hunt
  • run after 强调追赶、追求
    • Look! A dog is running after a cat.
    • What are you running after in your life?
  • seek/pursue 追寻
  • chase 追赶
    • They are chaseing a thief.
  • hunt for
  • serch 搜寻某处为了寻找到某人或某物
    • The police were seraching the forest for the missing boy.
    • And the search for that boy proves difficult.
• blackberry
• human being
• corner
  • n. 角落
    • at the corner of the street
    • in the corner of the room
    • on the corner of the desk
  • vt.使走投无路, 使陷入困境
    • The thief was cornered at last.
    • The problem cornered me.
• trail
  • vt. follow
    • The police trailed the criminal to the palce where he was hiding.
• print
• cling
  • clung vi. 粘住，保佑、怀有
  • She is always clinging to her mother.
  • He clung to the hope that he would succeed.
  • stick 粘住
    • stick the envelope.
  • stick to 坚持
  • sticky 粘的
• convince
  • vt. convince sb of sth
  • 和宾语从句that搭配使用
  • 没有宾语的情况下使用主系表结构：be convinced
• somehow
  • by some means, in some way, for some reason unknown
    • I got lost somehow.
  • somewhat: a little.
    • the price is somewhat higher than I expected.
• disturb
  • disturbing: 令人不安的

课文

A puma at large

• at large
  • 逃遁的，没有被控制的
    • The thief is still at large.
  • 详细地(in detail)
    • I need to talk to you at large.
  • 总体来讲(as a whole)
    • The student at large are hungry for the English

在英文的表达方式中，首先呈现给读者的是结果。

写议论文的时候要注意把握观点

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America.

• Pandas are large cat-like animals which are found in Asia.

• life-like: 栩栩如生的

When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously.

• 一般来讲定语从句和同位语从句应该紧随在被修饰名词后面, 但是为了保持句子平衡, 也可以把谓语动词放到从句之前。
• 定语从句vs同位语从句
  • 定语从句只是对被修饰词的补充说明、修饰
  • 同位语从句则是讲述被修饰名词的内容
  • 引导词
    • 定语从句的引导词
      • 指人：主语 who; 宾语 who/whom; 定语 whose
      • 表达事物：that/which
      • 时间状语：when
      • 地点状语：where
      • 原因状语：why
    • 同位语引导词
      • 名词作主语、宾语，关系词用that
      • 时间-when
      • 地点-where
  • An idea came to her that she might do the experiment in another way.
  • I have no idea what has happen to him.
    • 定语从句没有what关系词，但是它可以引导同位语从句
• take sth seriously/lightly

However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.

• as 随着
• descriptions given by people 过去分词做定语
• 声称曾经做过某事：claim to have done sth.

The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw a large cat only five yards away from her.

• I still remember the school where I studied English.

It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered.

• confirm: be sure, be certain
• unless: if not

The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening.

• search = hunt

Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits.

• 把某物留着后面：leave behind
• Wherever he went, the wounded soldier left behind him a trail of blood.

Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.

英文的表达方式重点在于突出客观事实，而中文则善于运用动作的执行者。

Several people complained of ‘cat-like noises’ at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.

• on + 名词：强调动作正在进行
  • on the rise
  • on the increase
  • on the watch
  • on the match
  • on the fishing trip
  • on holiday

The expert were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from?

• fully: completely, entirely

As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.

• in the possession of sb = in sb’s possession 归某人所有
• in possession of sth 拥有某物
  • The beautiful car is in my possession/in the possession of me.
  • I am in possession of the beautiful car.
  • The person in possession of the big house is excited.
• take possession of 拥有

The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught.

It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

• It is disturbing to think that it做形式主义，为了保持句子的平衡，避免头重脚轻。

总结

• at large 逍遥法外
• take sth seriously 认真对待
• cling to 沾
• leave behind 留下
• complain of 抱怨
• in the possession of 被…所拥有
• in possession of 拥有
• feel obliged to investigate 感到有必要进行调查
• a woman picking blackberries 一个正在采黑莓的女士
• a businessman on a fishing trip 钓鱼途中的商人
• go on for several weeks 持续了几周的时间
• in the quiet countryside 在宁静的乡村